Points of Pride - Alumni

Ed Crenshaw’s stint as president of Student Foundation in 1972-73 proved a nice training ground for his later life. After spending the last dozen years as president of Publix, Florida’s No. 1 grocery store chain and a market leader in the southeast, Crenshaw was promoted to CEO of the company last month. Crenshaw started at […]

Four Bears are in the big leagues as most of Major League Baseball kicks off the 2008 season today. Former national collegiate player of the year (and Mesquite native) Jason Jennings begins his first season with his hometown Texas Rangers. Jennings, who played at Baylor from 1997-99, is coming off a strong spring and will […]

According to Barron’s Magazine, the weekly financial publication put out by Dow Jones & Company, two of the world’s top 30 corporate leaders are Baylor grads! (The article is also on MSN.com.) Mark Hurd, a 1979 graduate and CEO of technology giant Hewlett-Packard, made the list for the first time; Bob Simpson, BBA ’70 and […]

Baylor students, faculty and staff annually volunteer more than 150,000 hours of local community service. The hope is that such an attitude of service continues long after graduation. One young Baylor alum recently was honored for her service, receiving the President’s Volunteer Service Award, which was created by President Bush in 2002 “as a way […]

In keeping with our refrigerator door analogy, from time to time Baylor Proud will share the accomplishments of alumni who are doing interesting things across a variety of fields — members of the Baylor family of whom we can all be proud. Alumna Jane Hampton Cook has worn a lot of different hats since graduating […]

For the past couple of years, each issue of the Baylor Line has profiled several notable alumni, ranging from Governor Ann Richards, to Word Inc. founder Jarrell McCracken, to author Thomas Harris. Equally interesting are the profiles on alumni you might never have heard of — people like Bess Whitehead Scott, a pioneer for women […]

Baylor alum Roxanne Wilson, who earned some measure of fame from appearing on The Apprentice a couple of years ago, was the guest speaker in Chapel last week. My wife and I watched that season of The Apprentice pretty regularly. (For those who didn’t, Roxanne represented Baylor well, both in the integrity she displayed and […]

For those of you planning to visit campus on or before March 1, I highly recommend stopping by the Martin Museum of Art in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center. Marc Burckhardt’s (BA ’86) and Mike Benny’s contemporary illustrations and paintings are featured in Gallery 1. Chances are likely that you will see some familiar pieces, […]

Each week, the folks at Apple’s iTunes Music Store pick a song that they label as a “Discovery Download,” usually one from an up-and-coming singer or group, and give it away as a free download. This week’s Discovery Download is “All That Matters,” by Addison Road — a group made up of mostly Baylor alums. […]

Baylor is all the richer for the many alumni and friends who maintain lifelong relationships with the University. One such example, Mary Russell McCall, was recently honored with the Founders Medallion, one of Baylor’s most distinguished awards. While a student at Baylor, McCall met her future husband, Lloyd Russell. While he was off serving the […]